Meeting Notes 2020-01-24
Posted on 24th January 2020
OH MY GOD ITS NOTES!
In attendance: Ryan, Sam, John, Toby, David, Dan
Late:
Absent: Rob, Scott
Elections/Constitution
- Big changes to the exec team expected
- Neither Sam nor David B. are going to run :[
- Also consider locking down LAN rooms due to low attendance at late hours?
- Consideration of a Women's Officer role
- No women ran this academic year, which is unusual
- Consideration of making an academic admin/pres, separate from leader role
- we need to rename the 'president' roles if that's the case
- Organiser?
- we need to rename the 'president' roles if that's the case
- remove publicity, assigning its duties as needed
- remove welfare as an elected role, make it an assigned role instead
- Changing voting rules to Single-Transfer instead of FPTP
- Push for socs fed fee exemption for academic societies
- Ryan to write up constitutional changes
- Encourage candidates to mention what other roles they're running for
Gaming
- Consider setting a specific endpoint for Gaming
- ~1 am?
- Gaming can rarely last til like 5am, but a majority leaves by 1am.
- Perhaps start earlier (7pm)
- CS0.03 is being refurbished, so we may need to relocate entirely to CS0.01
- Next LAN;
- Is Week 6
- LANimal Crossing!
- Consider a LAN bus?
- A physical, moving bus, not a network thing
- More tournaments!
- Kinect games?
- Wii games?
- We should start advertising now
- BFL - The Return of Friendliness
- Consider a loose schedule for events
WASD
- its happening
- (specifically in the SU atrium)
- David to collate what games are needed
- Start establishing a rota now
- ITS have ensured internet connection
Academic
- Wednesday is generally the best time for the talks
- Possibly introduce an auxiliary admin role for organising academic events?
- CTF with Ne(t/tt)itude (29th of January, 2pm to 6pm)
- Push department to advertise for us
- Post in freshers discords etc.
- Toby offered to help set up
- Optiver Talk - Low-latency programming - Week 9 wednesday
- Sam booked a room! Somewhere in the oculus
- Sam covering LaTeX in week 6
- Toby might do one :o
Newsletters
- Consider less frequent emails, with smaller emails for particular events
- Still the best way to reach all members
- not to toot my horn :^)
- Consider making a calendar of events
Misc
- Resolve to post more in #exec rather than #exec-priv
- Wellbeing Week with Maths, Stats and Phys Socs
- Board games, treasure hunts, etc
- Exact details to emerge next monday
- Sam and John helping with this
- bake takes for tuesday pls
- Sam to cut a new key for the 3rd cupboard
Quotes
"Rolf is so corporate now" - Sam
"Rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb" - Toby